Seaborgium

chemical element 106. Seaborgium is a synthetic radioactive element and a member of the transuranic group of elements. It was first synthesized in 1974 by a team of Soviet scientists and independently by scientists in the United States. It was temporarily named unnilhexium according to chemical naming rules. In the 1990s, scientists proposed naming the element rutherfordium,

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